Reply #64: No one ever did that with a rifle, either.

[benEzra]

The worst school shootings have involved ordinary pistols or primarily traditional-looking shotguns, not rifles with modern styling. The worst rifle school shooting in U.S. history was in 1966, and the weapon was a bolt-action deer rifle in 6mm Remington. Only one rifle was even present at Columbine, and it was a low-capacity (10-round) pistol-caliber carbine.

All rifles combined account for less than 3% of U.S. murders. Those who paint small- and intermediate- caliber civilian rifles with protruding handgrips as the next best thing to the Hiroshima bomb are simply fearmongering; a .22 centerfire is a .22 centerfire, regardless of what the stock looks like or whether the receiver is aluminum or blued steel.